Silent Install of the TestStand Engine 2.0.1

I am trying to do an unattended install of the TestStand Engine 2.0.1. I am using the "-noprompt" switch which makes the install silent except at the very end I get a dialogue box that say "You must reboot this computer...". I am also using InstallShield Professional 6.0 from which I launch then NI TestStand 2.0.2 engine.
Does anyone have a solution to do a completely silent install?
Thanks...Eric

Eric,
In general, we don't support creating silent installers because InstallShield isn't our development product. However, I have some information that may be of help. A normal (non-silent) installation receives the necessary input from the user in the form of responses to dialog boxes. As you know, a silent installation does not prompt the user for input. A silent installation must get its user input from a different source. That source is the InstallShield Silent Response File (.iss file). A response file contains information similar to that which an end user would enter as responses to dialog boxes when running a normal setup. InstallShield Silent reads the necessary input from the response file at run time.
The format of response files resembles that of
an .ini file, but response files have .iss extensions. A response file is a plain text file consisting of sections containing data entries. There are two ways in which you can create an InstallShield Silent Response File: you can run the setup and have InstallShield record and create the response file for you, or you can write the response file from scratch. It should be possible for you to create a response file that would contain a newline to confirm the reboot prompt. Your InstallShield documentation should provide more information regarding how you should create the response file.
If you have any more questions, let us know.
Regards,
Shannon R.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

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